News No. 97/2013,
Monday, August 05, 2013
THE ILLEGAL Bengali
settlers have ransacked 3 Jumma shops at Toichakma in Ramgarh Upazila, while
the army arrested a Democratic Youth Forum activist in Matiranga as a dawn-to
dusk road blockade programme called by UPDF in Khagrachari district passed off
peacefully.
The army personnel
arrested Shushanta Tripura from Ballyachari Signboard area while picketing the
roads. He has been handed over to the police.
This was his second
arrest. He was first arrested on 8 June by BGB from Taipa area in Gomati,
Matiranga and was released on bail a few days ago.
In Ramgarh, some
settler youths from Dainchara ransacked three Jumma shops – two in Toichakma
and one in Belchari, and took away one of the owners of the shops, Amendra
Tripura.
They handed him over
to Manikchari police station after beating.
About 200 settlers,
who came in two jeeps from Dainchara, took part in the attack.
However, the
UPDF-enforced road blockade programme passed off peacefully without any
untoward incidents.
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